NEWS RELEASE
THE GROVE YOUTH WELLNESS HUBS ONTARIO
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Beginning next month, Sashbear Family Foundation will host weekly evidence-based programming for families and loved ones focused on regulating emotional challenges, impulse control, managing stress and maintaining positive relationships.
The 12-week Family Connections fall group programming will start in September and provide skills, support and hope for family members and friends of individuals experiencing emotional challenges.
Sashbear Family Foundation offers this programming three times per year. The group sessions explore the various challenges and opportunities of working through emotional dysregulation, which is when individuals experience difficulty regulating their emotions.
By providing different strategies, coping skills, language, and tips, the sessions approach emotional challenges from a caregiver's perspective the peer-to-peer programming attempts to achieve balance, teach relationship skills, and improve knowledge for families and loved ones.
The Grove Wellington Guelph is a “one-stop-shop” for youth aged 12-26 designed to meet a wide range of needs, including mental health, substance use, primary care, education, employment, training, housing and other community and social services. It continues to positively impact the community by offering youth programs and services specifically designed for them.
The Sashbear Family Foundation is a charitable organization established in Etobicoke. Its mission is to lead a mental health reform by promoting awareness of the need for early prevention, recognition, timely intervention, and access to affordable treatment for individuals with borderline personality disorder or emotional dysregulation.
“The Grove is happy to promote Family Connections across our sites,” said Cyndy Dearden, director of community relations and partnership of Youth Wellness Hubs Ontario (YWHO) and founding executive director of The Grove Wellington Guelph.
“Sashbear Family Foundation offers free, evidence-based programming that is beneficial to every single parent or caregiver, providing an excellent opportunity to be involved in and have a better understanding of youth mental health and emotional regulation.”
The Sashbear Family Connections Group Programming for Fall 2023 begins in September and will run for 12 weeks. Twelve-week evening groups begin three times each year, in January, June and September.
The programs are offered free of charge to participants, and donations are always welcome for the programs to continue running and supporting families across Canada.
You can register for the Sashbear Family Connections programming by filling out the registration form.
To learn more about The Grove Wellington Guelph and its programming across seven local youth wellness sites, visit https://www.thegrovehubs.ca/
If you would like to stay up to date with what The Grove, subscribe to the monthly newsletter, The Heart of The Grove News.
To learn more about The Sashbear Family Foundation and their Family Connections Group Programs, click here.
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